WABI Club History   The Curaçao Wabi Club history. On October 31st 1965 the Curaçao Wabi Club was officially started. Before that, Benjamin "Shon Benchi" Wefer took an old Ford from the "mondi" (=bush) and fixed her up. In the beginning it was a joke to call the cars "Wabi", and as the story goes when Shon Benchi removed the car, there was a "Wabi-tree" growing where the engine used to be. Soon after this, old cars were named Wabi, and this started out to become a serious car club. See some pictures of the original 1928 Ford here. The Wabi-tree growing through the Ford was also in full bloom with small yellow flowers, and hence the color for the Wabi club was set!       As you can see there was not much left of the car, a 1928 Ford A Convertible, when Shon Benchi removed it from the "mondi". Slowly he fixed "Helena" (as he would name her) to it's beautiful state clearly seen in the third picture. Later the car would even be used to drive thru town with the local "Carnaval princess"! Hearsay: It is said that the WabiClub used to have it's own clubhouse some time ago. A building that was rented from the "Fraternan di Skerpene" for only Nafl. 85,00 (approx. US$ 40.00).